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Douglas County Community Foundation

To enrich the quality of life in the communities of douglas county, kansas by building philanthropic resources and relationships, providing attractive options for donors to make philanthropic contributions, and being a catalyst for the betterment of the lives of the citizens.

$10M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
170
Itemized grants FY2024
138
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$9.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$16,350
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,772,709
Organizations funded a year
70 to 138
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
19
Total assets, FY2024
$117M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Douglas County Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving157$9.2M29%
FY2023138$7.4M17%
FY202281$3.1M26%
FY2021115$4.9M25%
FY2020100$3.7M24%
FY201997$5.0M34%
FY201870$6.4M39%
FY201785$3.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$11MArts & Culture$5.7MAnimals$5.0MHealth$4.6MReligion$3.3MYouth Development$2.9MHuman Services$2.6MHousing & Shelter$1.8MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 278 grantees
All grantees of Douglas County Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Kansas University Endowment Association$5,552,86481%
Lawrence Humane Society$4,970,099837%
Lawrence Arts Center Inc$3,778,069840%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Lawrence Inc$2,488,207832%
Just Food of Douglas County Ks Inc$1,215,457810%
Elizabeth Ballard Community Center Inc$1,000,357824%
Lawrence Schools Foundation$984,509857%
Lawrence Public Library Friends and Foundation$938,751834%
Cottonwood Inc$912,72382%
Lmh Health Foundation$807,81684%
Douglas County Historical Society$757,242814%
Family Promise of Lawrence Inc$737,462824%
The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center Inc$705,66781%
Cottonwood Foundation Inc$672,969836%
Plymouth Congregational Church$662,3708n/a
Early Childhood Collective of Douglas County Inc$603,899614%
Van Go Inc$590,545818%
Velocity Church$570,0003n/a
Concerns of Police Survivors Inc$500,00044%
Douglas County Casa Program Inc$490,464818%
Ball State University Foundation Inc$416,50051%
The Willow Domestic Violence Center Inc$400,92685%
Unitarian Universalist Congregation$399,0545n/a
Bishop Seabury Academy$395,80172%
United Way of Douglas County Inc$394,321715%
Lawrence Community Shelter Inc$335,92186%
Oconnell Childrens Shelter Inc$275,957811%
St Margaret Episcopal Church$272,5667n/a
Lawrence Habitat for Humanity$271,76086%
Community Children's Center Inc$266,817628%
Pga Foundation Inc$250,00061%
Strongwater Farm Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc$214,000310%
Theatre Lawrence Inc$198,79777%
Heartland Medical Clinic Inc$197,42521%
Sparkwheel Inc$188,59871%
Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc$184,896324%
Lawrence Community Food Alliance Inc$174,688631%
Senior Resource Center for Douglas County Inc$171,33369%
First United Methodist Church of Lawrence Ks$160,6218n/a
Tenants to Homeowners Inc$159,65082%
Eudora Schools Foundation Inc$151,389720%
Lumberyard Arts Center Inc$148,119533%
Claires Community Inc$137,425522%
Douglas County Visiting Nurses Association Inc$135,46581%
Douglas County Extension Council$131,4576n/a
Health Care Access Inc$124,55361%
Wichita State University Foundation$121,50060%
Significant Matters Inc$120,000314%
United States Catholic Conference$115,8254n/a
Ottawa Police Foundation$112,615648%
Douglas County Ks$111,0405n/a
Wilcox Health Foundation$110,00063%
Salvation Army$108,7257n/a
Kansas Athletics Inc$103,8594n/a
Lecompton Historical Society Inc$100,840615%
St John Catholic Church$100,7077n/a
Concordia Theological Seminary$100,0001n/a
Pharmacy of Grace Inc$100,00018%
City of Baldwin City$100,0001n/a
Debate-Kansas City$100,000140%
Eudora United Methodist Church$98,2007n/a
Usd #497$91,2574n/a
Kansas Land Trust Inc$88,591613%
Childrens Learning Center Inc$88,51364%
Lawrence Children's Choir Inc$84,380626%
Douglas County Child Development Assoc DBA Positive Bright Start$83,36772%
Called to Greatness Ministries Inc$83,00035%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$82,10060%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Ks$80,40071%
Interlochen Center for the Arts$80,00050%
Kansas 4-H Foundation Inc$80,00021%
South Park Neighborhood Drop In$79,9895n/a
Tonganoxie Public Library Fdn$77,3051n/a
Lhba Cares Inc$70,0006n/a
National Humanities Center$70,00031%
St Luke Ame Church$69,8892n/a
Children's Advocacy Center of Douglas County Inc$69,01649%
Social Service League of Lawrence Inc$67,086616%
Harvesters - the Community Food Network$65,80060%
Justice Matters INC$65,100213%
Christian Dance Studios Inc$65,000323%
Warm Hearts of Douglas County Inc$60,825242%
Joy Meadows Inc$60,35023%
Lawrence Lions Alumni Association Inc$59,9806n/a
Homeless Resource Center Inc$57,954318%
Chi Omega Foundation$54,00040%
Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault$54,00030%
Libuse Kritz-Fiorito Historical Foundation$52,494353%
Lawrence Meals on Wheels Inc$52,44046%
Temple Emanuel$52,0006n/a
Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc$49,60050%
First Presbyterian Church$49,0004n/a
Trinity In-Home Care Inc$48,77052%
Chamber of Commerce of Lawrence Kansas$48,32751%
Cardinal Housing Network Inc$48,001132%
Ecumenical Campus Ministries$47,285511%
Special Olympics Kansas Inc$47,03041%
Lawrence Foundation$46,000428%
Ready for Good Co$44,60033%
Shelter Inc$44,29541%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$43,7502n/a
Delta Chi Educational Foundation$43,50016%
Baker University$42,98340%
The Sexual Trauma and Abuse Care Center Inc$42,92543%
First Responder Chaplain Association$42,5122n/a
Lawrence Civic Choir Inc$40,1004n/a
The Eisenhower Foundation$40,00040%
Lawrence Sponsoring Committee$40,0002n/a
First Christian Church of Lawrence Kansas$40,0001n/a
The Arc of Douglas County Incorporation$39,82044%
Insight Womens Center Inc$39,63343%
Corpus Christi Catholic Church$38,6002n/a
Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc$38,50040%
Full Circle Tenant Services Inc$37,950335%
Headquarters Kansas Inc$37,20136%
Lawrence-Do Co Public Health$36,9512n/a
Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition K$36,691318%
Lawrence Community Orchestra Inc$36,4614n/a
Lawrence Community Nursery School$36,174311%
Kansas City Art Institute$35,90020%
Lawrence Farmers Market$35,57028%
Regents of the University of Michigan$35,2503n/a
Culver Educational Foundation$35,22240%
Boys Club of Greater Kansas City$35,00010%
City of Olathe$35,0001n/a
Rock Chalk Roundball Classic$34,06925%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$33,95040%
Outside for a Better Inside Inc$31,5005n/a
Operation Breakthrough Inc$31,00020%
St Lawrence Catholic Campus Center$30,0293n/a
Jones Project Inc$30,000311%
Foundation for Fraternal Excellence Inc$30,00031%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc$30,00030%
Cof Training Services Inc$30,00020%
Kansas Head Start Association$29,44512%
Baldwin City Public Library Inc$28,5002n/a
Metro Vineyard Fellowship Olathe Worship Center$28,0652n/a
Friends of the Kaw Inc$27,77733%
Junior Achievement of Kansas Inc$27,59541%
Kansas Scholastic Press Association$27,500220%
Folds of Honor Foundation$27,00030%
Life Restoration Ministries Inc$26,9692n/a
Heart to Heart International Inc$26,05040%
Nebraska Wesleyan University$26,00010%
One Hundred Good Women$25,765129%
Midland Care Connection Inc$25,50030%
Harmon Killebrew-Danny Thompson Memorial Cancer Foundation Inc$25,00021%
World Central Kitchen Inc$25,00020%
Wabash Valley Health Center Inc$25,00011%
Lyric Opera of Kansas City Inc$25,00010%
Tim Tebow Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Coal Creek Library Association$24,0501n/a
Steps of Faith Foundation$24,00031%
Redeemer Lutheran Church$24,0001n/a
Douglas County Housing Inc$22,57539%
Kansas Interfaith Action Inc$22,50023%
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc$21,54820%
Cantemos Youth Chorale Club$20,3842n/a
Naples Community Hospital Inc$20,00020%
Prairie Band of Potawatomie Nation$20,0001n/a
Child Protection Center Inc$20,00021%
Happybottoms$20,00020%
Young Life$20,00010%
Oakwood School$20,00010%
The Foundation of Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Inc$20,00021%
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children$20,00020%
Foster Village Lawrence$20,000213%
Developing Connections Northeast Ohio$20,000110%
Friends of Hidden Valley Inc$19,8302n/a
City of Lecompton$19,7242n/a
De Soto United Methodist Church$19,0002n/a
United States Fund for Unicef$18,80020%
Direct Relief$18,60020%
Citrus County Abuse Shelter Associa$18,57012%
United Way of Kaw Valley Inc$18,50010%
Operation Wildlife Inc$17,91613%
Trinity Episcopal Church$17,5003n/a
Community Mercantile Educational Foundation Inc$17,100130%
Lawrence Preservation Alliance Inc$17,0502n/a
Baldwin Education Foundation$16,77029%
Father and Daughter Alliance$16,3602n/a
The Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center Inc$16,20021%
Baldwin Retirement Apartment Complexinc$16,13723%
Planned Parenthood Great Plains$15,60020%
Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Chu$15,4801n/a
Douglas County Core Inc$15,1002n/a
Honduras Ministries Inc$15,00015%
Outreach International$15,00010%
Burlington High School Alumni Scholarship FND$15,000123%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Ne Kansas Inc$15,00014%
India Gospel League Inc N America$15,00010%
Bethel College$15,00020%
The Blackjack Battlefield Trust Inc$14,8002n/a
Labette Community College Foundation and Alumni Association$14,41022%
Se Asia Foundation$13,76021%
Lawrence Kansas Juneteenth Organization$13,500118%
The Light Center$13,1021n/a
Sierra Club Foundation$12,10010%
Building Peace Inc$12,0002n/a
Dream Tree Project$12,00011%
Umkc Foundation$11,99520%
Community Living Opportunities Inc$11,60010%
Peace Mennonite Church$11,3601n/a
Public Management Research Assoc$11,00023%
Arpan Foundation Inc$10,68420%
Cornerstone Community School Association$10,63814%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$10,50010%
Kaw Valley Soccer Association$10,25011%
Prairie Paws Animal Shelter Inc$10,10010%
Urban Scholastic Center$10,00012%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Place House Inc$10,0001n/a
Charity Global Inc$10,0001n/a
Living Spring Faith Ministries-Usa$10,00019%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Topeka$10,00010%
Just-Us League Corp$10,0001n/a
Hispanic Federation Inc$10,00010%
Hindman Settlement School Inc$10,00011%
Topeka Rescue Mission Inc$10,00010%
CASA of the Fourth Judicial District Inc$10,0001n/a
Hyperion Inc$10,0001n/a
Artists Helping the Homeless Inc$10,00011%
Insideout Writers Inc$10,00011%
Foundation Todos Juntos Inc$10,00019%
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc$10,00010%
Jewish Community Council of Winston-Salem$10,00012%
School Year Abroad Inc$10,00010%
Kansas Childrens Service League$10,00010%
Kauai Habitat for Humanity Inc$10,00010%
Young Woman DC$10,0001n/a
Lawrence First Church of the Nazare$9,6861n/a
Morning Star Christian Church$9,2501n/a
Front Row Foundation$9,15012%
Native Lands Restoration Collaborative$9,00019%
Lawrence City Band Inc$8,8501n/a
Kansas Advocates for Better Care Inc$8,75013%
East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corporation$8,70010%
Crested Butte Land Trust$8,60011%
Friends of Raintree Inc$8,5751n/a
Landen Lucas Foundation$8,5001n/a
Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Inc$8,30010%
The Greenway Meditation Institute$8,2221n/a
Lawrence Art Guild Association$8,000187%
Folds of Honor Kansas City Inc$8,00010%
The Topeka Public Schools Foundation$7,99512%
Lazarus House Inc$7,50010%
Tfi Family Services Inc$7,50010%
St John the Evangelist Catholic Church$7,5001n/a
Charlotte Street Foundation$7,50010%
Valor Partners Foundation$7,50013%
Friends of the Lied$7,2001n/a
Kansas City Symphony$7,11510%
Housing and Credit Counseling Inc$7,02111%
Youth Heartline$7,00011%
Rev City Church Inc$6,7001n/a
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$6,70010%
Primetime Ballerz Foundation$6,5001n/a
Outdoors Unscripted Inc$6,3891n/a
Friends of Lawrence Area Trails$6,2001n/a
Mid America Performing Arts Allianc$6,1001n/a
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$6,00010%
Bread for the World Institute$6,00010%
Trinity Lutheran Church$6,0001n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$5,65010%
Lawrence Blue Santa Program Inc$5,5001n/a
Amnesty International of the USA Inc$5,50010%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$5,50010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,45010%
Servicespace$5,34219%
Americana Music Academy Inc$5,32013%
Hayden High School$5,3191n/a
Heart of America Council Boy Scouts of America$5,25010%
Hands in Nepal Inc$5,2221n/a
Erc Resource & Referral$5,2001n/a
Kansas Bar Foundation$5,20011%
Equal Justice Initiative$5,20010%
Kansas Paraguay Partners Inc$5,1001n/a
Community Village Lawrence Inc$5,1001n/a

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($239k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Douglas County Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 20 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 199 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $5,552,864 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetLawrence Humane Society: $4,970,099 over 8y, 37% of budgetLawrence Arts Center Inc: $3,778,069 over 8y, 40% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Lawrence Inc: $2,488,207 over 8y, 32% of budgetJust Food of Douglas County Ks Inc: $1,215,457 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetElizabeth Ballard Community Center Inc: $1,000,357 over 8y, 24% of budgetLawrence Schools Foundation: $984,509 over 8y, 57% of budgetLawrence Public Library Friends and Foundation: $938,751 over 8y, 34% of budgetCottonwood Inc: $912,723 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetLmh Health Foundation: $807,816 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetDouglas County Historical Society: $757,242 over 8y, 14% of budgetFamily Promise of Lawrence Inc: $737,462 over 8y, 24% of budgetThe Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center Inc: $705,667 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCottonwood Foundation Inc: $672,969 over 8y, 36% of budgetEarly Childhood Collective of Douglas County Inc: $603,899 over 6y, 14% of budgetVan Go Inc: $590,545 over 8y, 18% of budgetConcerns of Police Survivors Inc: $500,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetDouglas County Casa Program Inc: $490,464 over 8y, 18% of budgetBall State University Foundation Inc: $416,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Willow Domestic Violence Center Inc: $400,926 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetBishop Seabury Academy: $395,801 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetUnited Way of Douglas County Inc: $394,321 over 7y, 15% of budgetLawrence Community Shelter Inc: $335,921 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetOconnell Childrens Shelter Inc: $275,957 over 8y, 11% of budgetLawrence Habitat for Humanity: $271,760 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetCommunity Children's Center Inc: $266,817 over 6y, 28% of budgetPga Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetStrongwater Farm Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc: $214,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetTheatre Lawrence Inc: $198,797 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetHeartland Medical Clinic Inc: $197,425 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSparkwheel Inc: $188,598 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $184,896 over 3y, 24% of budgetLawrence Community Food Alliance Inc: $174,688 over 6y, 31% of budgetSenior Resource Center for Douglas County Inc: $171,333 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetTenants to Homeowners Inc: $159,650 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetEudora Schools Foundation Inc: $151,389 over 7y, 20% of budgetLumberyard Arts Center Inc: $148,119 over 5y, 33% of budgetClaires Community Inc: $137,425 over 5y, 22% of budgetDouglas County Visiting Nurses Association Inc: $135,465 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHealth Care Access Inc: $124,553 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetWichita State University Foundation: $121,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSignificant Matters Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetOttawa Police Foundation: $112,615 over 6y, 48% of budgetWilcox Health Foundation: $110,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetLecompton Historical Society Inc: $100,840 over 6y, 15% of budgetPharmacy of Grace Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetDebate-Kansas City: $100,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetKansas Land Trust Inc: $88,591 over 6y, 13% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 199.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Midcontinent FoundationMN66.7× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Midcontinent Foundation · Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · United Way of Douglas County Inc · Kriz Charitable Fund Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Kaw Valley Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · The Sunderland Foundation · ASSISTS FOUNDATION co KANSAS BASKETBALL OFFICE

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Douglas County Community Foundation

How much does Douglas County Community Foundation give?
Douglas County Community Foundation reported 170 itemized grants totaling $9,397,861, out of $10,466,758 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 138 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Douglas County Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Arts & Culture (13%), Animals (12%).
Who are Douglas County Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Kansas University Endowment Association ($5.6M), Lawrence Humane Society ($5.0M), Lawrence Arts Center Inc ($3.8M).
Does Douglas County Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Douglas County Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Midcontinent Foundation, Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation, Topeka Community Foundation.
Where is Douglas County Community Foundation based?
Douglas County Community Foundation is based in KS.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 300 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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